India’s Richest 1% Own More Than 40% of Total Wealth, Bottom Half Has Just 3%: Oxfam
Taxing India’s 10 richest billionaires at only 5% can fetch the entire money needed to bring children back to school, says the report released at WEF Davos meet.
‘PM’s Silence Shows Armed Mobs Enjoy Official Patronage’: Opposition Leaders in Joint Statement; Also – Sonia Gandhi Statement.
Thirteen opposition leaders said, “We reiterate our commitment to combat and confront the poisonous ideologies which are attempting to entrench divisiveness in our society”; Also: “Apocalypse of Hatred, Bigotry, Intolerance, Untruth Engulfing Country: Sonia Gandhi.”
Sankar: From ‘Great Unknown’ via ‘Chowringhee’ to Literary Colossus at 88
The Sahitya Akademi award winning Bengali novelist’s works have been translated into several languages including English, Hindi, Malayalam, Gujarati, French and Spanish.
Art World Remembers M F Husain 10 Years After the Artist Died in Forced Exile
With FIRs and persistent death threats from Hindutva forces, Husain was forced into self-exile. He died on June 9, 2011 at the age of 95, yearning to return to his country.